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- The United States and Egypt launched a joint work group to prepare for the next U.N. climate change summit
- The summit will be hosted by Egypt in November this year. U.S. envoy John Kerry said the group’s main task was working on the COP27 conference in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh
- Egypt has already taken many steps in the preparation for the summit.
The United States and Egypt launched a joint work group to prepare for the next U.N. climate change summit. The summit will be hosted by Egypt in November this year. U.S. envoy John Kerry said the group’s main task was working on the COP27 conference in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Egypt has already taken many steps in the preparation for the summit.
Kerry said that climate change is an existential threat to mankind and countries together should address this problem, which was assuming wider ramifications as years passed by.
Kerry was speaking at a news conference in Cairo along with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry. Neither official took questions from reporters. Kerry is also scheduled to speak at the American University in Cairo on the future of international climate action in the lead up to COP27, the State Department said. He said the U.S. was also working with the Egyptian government on its own transition to have a clean energy future.
Kerry, earlier in June last year, announced an increase in the U.S. funding to help Egypt convert to solar energy and move away from fossil fuels. Importantly, in recent years, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi had taken steps to convert to renewables, seizing advantage of the country’s optimal solar and wind conditions for energy harvesting.
